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Today, day 12 of my Panda ownership and I overtook my first person!
They were doing a steady 50 on a straight and I positively flew past.
Secondly, I beeped the horn for the first time! Ah Haa haaaa. Going to search 'horn upgrade ' immediately
 
Wee Smurf said:
The horn perfectly matches the car. A cheeky wee toot.
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True, but sometimes there ain't no substitute for decibels and the Stebel does sound Italian. Just a bit more Maserati than Fiat.

Both is better...

Got a changeover switch in the gloveboxes of mine and 'er indoors. Can be Dr. Jeckyl or Mr/Mrs. Hyde as required.
 
More like "get outta the way or i break-a ya face".

(Apologies for the blatant stereotyping)

But seriously, it is a similar sound to the twin air horns that Italian cars used to have in the 60s and 70s. Before they got boring!
 
Reminds me of a big Citroen DS19 I used to drive. It had a 'Town/Country' switch.

Took me a while to work out that it toggled between gentle horns and an enormous deep-throated bellow!
 
please don't think this a silly question but which was louder ? town ? or country? back then.
 
Sweetsixteen said:
Reminds me of a big Citroen DS19 I used to drive. It had a 'Town/Country' switch.

Took me a while to work out that it toggled between gentle horns and an enormous deep-throated bellow!
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That would be handy for the oblivious people you get wandering around car parks in the middle of the road. If you haven't got a diesel hammering away up front you end up nearly nudging their backsides. But by the time you've realised they really aren't going to realise there's a ton of metal sneaking along at idle behind them setting off a dual tone car horn a foot away seems a bit much, unless you like making people jump/looking like a dick.

Really needs an "ahem" function.
 
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irc said:
That's what the standard horn does... "excuse me, would you be so kind as to move over and let me past, please"

If that doesn't work, hit the switch and try it translated into anglo saxon.
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It's fine on small cars my Fiats and Suzuki had a jolly tone that was OK on that sort of thing. Couple of little pips on it didn't give the "get the f**k out of the way you're about to die under my wheels vibe".

Setting off a dual tone right behind someone while traveling at walking pace in a multi storey where it echoes back on the other hand...
 
Wee Smurf said:
The horn perfectly matches the car. A cheeky wee toot.
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A wee toot for a wee smurf?:)

I'm still on the standard horn. I've looked for horns before but now that I duckduckgo'ed "stebel nautilus" I might actually order it. Tend to get used rather frequently in one of my cities!
 
Ideally, I'd like a louder horn wired to one side of the steering wheel and keep the other side stock.

No idea how hard this would be though.
 
I love the way horns and headlamp flashes seem to happen when you overtake. Always of course with a considerable delay while the driver finds the switch (or engages the brain cell) to indicate their annoyance.

Being a biker with no shortage of acceleration I often overtake and I hasten to add with care and considerations for others and I don't have a tin can and air bags around me - Im no idiot. I also don't want to be lumped with the sports bike power ranger nutters we get at this time of year.

So many road users hate being overtaken. Oh yes, they'll trundle along at 40 with a queue jammed behind and maybe creep up to 50 when they forget to check the speedo but they just hate being overtaken and they also don't like people overtaking on the opposite side of the road. I wave back.

Doing it in a Fiat Panda doubly Ps them off because they know you have minimal power and costs a fraction of their PCP funded Nissan (Butternut) Squashquai. Sadly it hardly ever happens because you normally never have enough space to safely overtake.
 
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DaveMcT said:
I love the way horns and headlamp flashes seem to happen when you overtake. Always of course with a considerable delay while the driver finds the switch (or engages the brain cell) to indicate their annoyance.

Being a biker with no shortage of acceleration I often overtake and I hasten to add with care and considerations for others and I don't have a tin can and air bags around me - Im no idiot. I also don't want to be lumped with the sports bike power ranger nutters we get at this time of year.

So many road users hate being overtaken. Oh yes, they'll trundle along at 40 with a queue jammed behind and maybe creep up to 50 when they forget to check the speedo but they just hate being overtaken and they also don't like people overtaking on the opposite side of the road. I wave back.

Doing it in a Fiat Panda doubly Ps them off because they know you have minimal power and costs a fraction of their PCP funded Nissan (Butternut) Squashquai. Sadly it hardly ever happens because you normally never have enough space to safely overtake.
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I drive at least 30 miles to work every day most of it on single carriage way roads and at 7am it's amazing how many people are out in the rush hour traffic when they clearly have no need to be anywhere, the route I take fluctuates between 30 and 50 as you go though villages and country side.

They usually stick dead on 40 the whole way without slowing for the villages or speeding up for the open roads. I spend a lot of time overtaking people especially as I usually have to be somewhere not just plodding to the allotment.

It's almost always greated with horns and flashing lights even when there is nothing else of he roads for miles later in the evenings.

They really feel like some injustice has befallen them to be over taken and want to try and express how you have some how broken the law...... by breaking the law themselves.
 
AndyRKett said:
I drive at least 30 miles to work every day most of it on single carriage way roads and at 7am it's amazing how many people are out in the rush hour traffic when they clearly have no need to be anywhere, the route I take fluctuates between 30 and 50 as you go though villages and country side.

They usually stick dead on 40 the whole way without slowing for the villages or speeding up for the open roads. I spend a lot of time overtaking people especially as I usually have to be somewhere not just plodding to the allotment.

It's almost always greated with horns and flashing lights even when there is nothing else of he roads for miles later in the evenings.

They really feel like some injustice has befallen them to be over taken and want to try and express how you have some how broken the law...... by breaking the law themselves.
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Overtaking is a dying art, the white lines on the road are designed to inform you when it's safe to overtake.
 
Gavv8 said:
Overtaking is a dying art, the white lines on the road are designed to inform you when it's safe to overtake.
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If you've ever had the misfortune to travel Newcastle to Edinburgh on the A1 you'll be aware that most people aren't aware what they mean. So shaded boxes are for overtaking...double solid lines, overtaking...if there isn't a car less than a 100yds away in the other lane overtake regardless of if you can make it. It's fine the person you are overtaking will jam the brakes and the person coming the other way on so you can survive another day.

I'm not anti overtaking if done properly but people don't read the road, don't look ahead and have no concept of distance apparently at which point it's just dangerous. If I'm doing 60 on cruise and someone wants to do more than that, that's their choice however if they wobble past at 63.5 then swerve in a foot in front of my front bumper having nearly centre punched a car coming the other way then that is bad driving and how to have a 3 car accident with a huge closing speed.
 
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